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Title: Morning dew
Post by: Walli on April 07, 2009, 03:34:52 AM
Hi,

just wanted to test some of the grasses that I brought to terragen. I used specular on some of them to produce this "glittering".
(http://www.wallis-eck.de/2009/wp-content/gallery/wallis-eck/morning_dew.jpg)

I posted the grass and flowers right here:
http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=6024.0

best,
Walli
Title: Re: Morning dew
Post by: inkydigit on April 07, 2009, 06:55:57 AM
love the tree also...what model is it?....the light here is especially reminiscent of the morn'!
Title: Re: Morning dew
Post by: Luminos on April 07, 2009, 07:56:27 AM
Amazing image! well done
Title: Re: Morning dew
Post by: rcallicotte on April 07, 2009, 08:55:03 AM
Nice colors.  Nice lighting.  A little fuzzy, though.  Not sure why.
Title: Re: Morning dew
Post by: Walli on April 07, 2009, 10:14:25 AM
I think the fuzziness comes from the softer AA algorithm I chose. I now sharpened in Photoshop and also made a croprender for the upper right area to remov the noise and bring some rays in.

About the tree - like almost every plant in my renders, the tree is selfmade. A combination of Xfrog and Cinema4D work.
Title: Re: Morning dew
Post by: Zylot on April 07, 2009, 01:46:57 PM
wow, very well done.
Title: Re: Morning dew
Post by: Saurav on April 07, 2009, 07:31:41 PM
Great render, captures the morning feel very well.
Title: Re: Morning dew
Post by: Tangled-Universe on April 08, 2009, 02:11:49 PM
Very nice striking light on the right. Smart to render that part separate for the rays.
I like the models on the right-foreground as well.
The specularities on the grasses could be a bit weaker and especially rougher without losing the morning dew look of them.
The right-foreground plants look very nice!
In overall good work :)

Martin
Title: Re: Morning dew
Post by: Walli on April 08, 2009, 04:30:40 PM
I think I would have to use very high for the grass populator settings, or increase the AA, as the grass models itself are very fine structures. You can see it in this render (Vray) http://www.wallis-eck.de/2009/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/render.jpg

Or what do you think?
Title: Re: Morning dew
Post by: Seth on April 08, 2009, 04:33:16 PM
agree !
very high for the population, AA 11 (at least)...
good render though, even if i don't like saturated colours (but that is only personnal taste, not technical critic)
Title: Re: Morning dew
Post by: Tangled-Universe on April 08, 2009, 04:45:43 PM
Yes I would definitely render them at highest detail.
I always do that, except for populations in the (far) background.
In my opinion it is always worth it and it really does look better.

I see you've posted your models elsewhere here, thanks for sharing! :)
Title: Re: Morning dew
Post by: Seth on April 08, 2009, 04:50:29 PM
yeah, I always do very high too and as sated by T-U, it really worth it !
Title: Re: Morning dew
Post by: Walli on April 08, 2009, 04:55:03 PM
I replaced the image in the original posting, it now shows more of the fine details. You can comapre to the old version here:
http://www.wallis-eck.de/2009/wp-content/gallery/wallis-eck/morning_dew_old.jpg
And a closeup here:
http://www.wallis-eck.de/wip/morning_dew_close.jpg
Title: Re: Morning dew
Post by: Tangled-Universe on April 08, 2009, 04:57:43 PM
Ahh..nice! What do you think? Didn't the grasses and the models benefit from the increased detail? I do think so!
I also noticed you upped the atmosphere samples. It looks 'cleaner' now.
I assume you kept the specularity the same?
Great work anyway!

Martin
Title: Re: Morning dew
Post by: Seth on April 08, 2009, 05:01:03 PM
much much better but i  would lower the specular of the grass...
Title: Re: Morning dew
Post by: Walli on April 08, 2009, 05:04:26 PM
yes, the render already was on its way, so it was to late to lower specularity. If I find the time, I´ll try that suggestion!
Title: Re: Morning dew
Post by: Seth on April 08, 2009, 05:07:50 PM
you really did a good job on this one ;)